Inside poetry's factional camps, there's a lot of circling of the
wagons going on. But outside, in the culture at large, an open horizon
works like a magnet. Borders are crisscrossed. Subjectivity works by
osmosis. Nothing stays fixed (or forgotten) for long. Everything is
ripe for sampling. As Kraftwerk put it: "You can synthesize your
existence. We created ourselves synthetically. I suppose you might call
it 'ersatz,' but the real meaning of the word synthetic is 'putting
together,' which is all we are doing."
Track the cues. Follow the clues—in "debug mode." Rob Fitterman,
in the years I've known him, living in New York City, has propelled
himself along a line of adventure, from an earlier floating Objectivist
precisionism through the circus banners of a chopped-up hurly-burly
Americana and then, experimenting with a wider palette of devices and
approaches, to a full-face engagement with the palimpsest sociability
of city life—in Metropolis
1-15(Sun & Moon, 2000).
The pieces here are destined for another volume of the ongoing Metropolis
project: "our story is one of content selection"—whether from
Petrarch's Rome or Guiliani's Manhattan. And if they move beyond the
anxiously personal—more like contemporary post-conceptual installation
art or the copy-&-paste aesthetic of pop music—they also skirt
the arbitrary, the formulaic, the auto-pilot button. They valorize themselves
not so much by vernacular sampling (which is nothing new, even if it
still scandalizes the clerisy) as by the rich and risky attentiveness
of their prosodic choices. Relation is it.
—Bruce Andrews
PET
(from Metropolis 30: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)
1. Prime of Life
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Sunrise
Media Kit Mountain
Cleopatra Cruise Ship Center memory
burners
newcities committed to the bright path
cafeteria approach,
protein folding, SupraLife, capital preservation
gains
EZAccess laserhaus
we have become the leader of the purification reagents
with
state of the art robotic platforms
deeply discounted woodshed services
wanting
thorny bushes—
our favorite motivational speaker—with her blood
:gone
to the well
2. A Splendid Body
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Speed
stack, thin's
virtual
cheercard, coil
corsets,
pumped adornment
trappers, replacers, mineral
ннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннннн toddy,
total toddy, the great
splenic
vessels, sectional
liquid
latex basket, Ultra Toddy
spiritual
microfiltration
thalamus nomads, bright oxy
tamale
filling: some call it
a
magazine, a catalogue, we call it
a magalog! guggulbolic
performance
drink, core error:
so
you're replacing me
3. Good Health
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Lose years (grapeseed oil horror stories
it's a go hot worry
determining cost pillar associated with job headaches
reverse policy discounts (cosmetic & scenery
(island insert)) getaway for your happy mind
in the next act, everything you do
has a purpose (cheap suit itch
these people seem happy enough
let's try the other test
4. Health Restored
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Well come creamy, light gas pockets
you're
trekking across a vast swamp teaming
with gritty stuff followed by stingy stuff—lat pulldown
restored foreskins
Fast forward to the first of the year…
debug mode, belly
off farming subluxated cortisol
is not a friend, smoking dope restored my sight
I know a small HMO that welcomes HIV
It's
a paradise in danger, you're naked on the trial
It's a shakedown,
I'm
a massive success story
5. Strength
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I love your pain management system
myodynamic okie grips label syntax
caber turner payroll (star) garden invisible
practical knife throwing multi-everything
data model caught in someone else's body
Behold… the former things willl not be
remembered Olde Time Physical Culture
a shake-hands-with-your-uncle-Sam
personality indicator. Tone Max. We
capitalize the word TEAM because we love
your product little gypsy penny drop
supermotivating biblical nutrition schedule-
driven spinecare candlles our story is one
of content selection my sheep listen to my voice
6. Running Swiftly
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I needed a cute little fox image, hymnut
industry
wrap-ups, bingo permit, frosty
olympic hoplit armor a lamb who goes uncomplaining
forth, do you get the feeling some folks think
fresh-start
manuals means a big snowball
approval
re-engineering riverfront boost?
Raising the dust in the plain super-easily
home-based
triangle banks a big bet is on
the
people, temporary foghog offices
we can make it happen, how to get paid for watching
TV,
local Hilltoppers in Slovak soft step
either
you're a walker or a runner
there's no such animal as a jogger.
7. A Good Mind
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This is how discrimination feels
this world needs
to lay off individuals
Unless it turns itself into something which itself
is not... words
fail me: Mark, you ARE the man!
Science of mind mall, mind shop, mind in your area,
mind does not
cover Scotland, trigger supreme
The following success stories reflect a deep ecologist,
futurist and
corporate critic, dreamgiver
Lame-ass anarchy page helping you think your way
to an excellent
life. Emily's problem:
No changeable gods unless there were unchangeable
return to the
Institute Calendar (lunch included)
About this guide, it shatters lives, the mental charity
Carmen's story:
when will stuff arrive?
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